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1832
Whose working lives fell in 1832. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1832, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Mary Shelley16 decades - 2
Heinrich Heine21 decades - 3
William I, German Emperornot measured- - 4
Napoleon IInot measured- - 5
Sojourner Truth13 decades - 6
Adolphe Thiers15 decades - 7
Évariste Galois6 decades - 8
Gaetano Donizetti19 decades - 9
Hiroshigenot measured- - 10
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff14 decades - 11
Alfred de Vigny20 decades - 12
Charles Lyell21 decades - 13
Manuela Sáenz15 decades - 14
Joseph Henry22 decades - 15
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany18 decades - 16
Paul Delaroche19 decades - 17
Friedrich August II of Saxony21 decades - 18
Jeremias Gotthelf18 decades - 19
Antonio Rosmini20 decades - 20
Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestannot measured- - 21
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel0 decades - 22
Alexander Bestuzhev17 decades - 23
Ida Laura Pfeiffer11 decades - 24
George Tupou I0 decades - 25
Ramón Castilla17 decades - 26
Wilhelm Küchelbecker11 decades - 27
Prince Frederik of the Netherlands0 decades - 28
Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke0 decades - 29
Ghalib21 decades - 30
Giuditta Pasta21 decades - 31
Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg0 decades - 32
Archduchess Marie Caroline Ferdinanda of Austrianot measured- - 33
Innocent of Alaska0 decades - 34
Karl Otfried Müller16 decades - 35
ʿUmar Talnot measured- - 36
Princess Maria Anna of Saxonynot measured- - 37
Henry E. Steinwaynot measured- - 38
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigannot measured- - 39
Paweł Strzeleckinot measured- - 40
Pierre Leroux22 decades - 41
Mariano Paredes17 decades - 42
José Mariano Salasnot measured- - 43
January Suchodolski0 decades - 44
Juan Lavallenot measured- - 45
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuillenot measured- - 46
Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, 2nd Princess of Kohárynot measured- - 47
Bakht Khannot measured- - 48Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadinot measured-
- 49
Grigory Zassnot measured- - 50
Charles Hodgenot measured- - 51
Adele Schopenhauernot measured- - 52
Frederic Baraganot measured- - 53
Gerrit Smithnot measured- - 54
Johann Georg Waglernot measured- - 55
Carl Gustaf Mosander0 decades - 56
Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir0 decades - 57
Andrew Smith22 decades - 58
Carl Gustaf Mannerheimnot measured- - 59
Mary Lyonnot measured- - 60
Benjamin Bonnevillenot measured- - 61
Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venantnot measured- - 62
Anthony Panizzinot measured- - 63
Francisco Javier Echeverríanot measured- - 64
Abraham Pineo Gesnernot measured- - 65
Philippe Suchardnot measured- - 66
Emily de Vialarnot measured- - 67
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini1 decades - 68
Ioannis Makriyannisnot measured- - 69
Narciso Lópeznot measured- - 70
Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingennot measured- - 71
Joseph Othmar Rauschernot measured- - 72
Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santosnot measured- - 73
Edwin Vose Sumnernot measured- - 74
Michael Garicoitsnot measured- - 75
Franz Krügernot measured- - 76
Count Karl Ferdinand von Buolnot measured- - 77
Hadi Sabzavarinot measured- - 78
Hamilton Humenot measured- - 79
Joseph von Radowitznot measured- - 80
Wilhelm Beer6 decades - 81
Piotr Wysockinot measured- - 82
Charles de Rémusatnot measured- - 83
John Gardner Wilkinsonnot measured- - 84
Barthélémy Du Mortier0 decades - 85
Karolina Gerhardingernot measured- - 86
Jean-Marie Duhamelnot measured- - 87
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleurynot measured- - 88
Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württembergnot measured- - 89Johann Andreas Wagner0 decades
- 90
Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorfnot measured- - 91
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandosnot measured- - 92Edward Turner Bennett0 decades
- 93
Naum Veqilharxhinot measured- - 94
Carlo Blasis0 decades - 95
Antoine Claudetnot measured- - 96
Giuseppe Ferlininot measured- - 97
Alexandre Vinetnot measured- - 98
Joseph Mérynot measured- - 99
Emily Edennot measured- - 100
Gotthilf Hagennot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.